Tag Archives: Cash

Many companies have been pushing for a repatriation holiday and recent reports have highlighted how much cash is held overseas. A little more than half the companies in the Fortune 500 have at least $1.6 trillion in untaxed profits parked offshore, … Continue reading →

According to Lloyd Blankfein’s WSJ op-ed, cash holdings of non-financial companies amount to more than a trillion. Cash holdings have been high for the past few years, but I haven’t looked at the numbers on this lately and I found … Continue reading →

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I'm an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Faculty Research Fellow at National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in the Public economics group. You can follow me on twitter @omzidar.